Quotes About Beauty

there is a delicacy in it equalled only by the daintiness of the elephant's trunk.

the appalling beauty of the vast milky mass, that lit up by a horizontal spangling sun, shifted and glistened like a living opal in the blue morning sea.

At such times, under an abated sun; afloat all day upon smooth, slow heaving swells; seated in his boat, light as a birch canoe; and so sociably mixing with the soft waves themselves, that like hearth-stone cats they purr against the gunwale; these are the times of dreamy quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember, that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.

Deep into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill-side blue. But though the picture lies thus tranced, and though this pine-tree shakes down its sighs like leaves upon this shepherd's head, yet all were vain, unless the shepherd's eye were fixed upon the magic stream before him.

Deep into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill-side blue.

Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it;

Considerad la sutileza del mar; cómo sus más temidas criaturas se deslizan bajo el agua, sin aparecer en su mayor parte, traidoramente ocultas bajo lo más amables matices del azur.

All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque.

Ehrenbreitstein

And the women of New Bedford, they bloom like their own red roses. But roses only bloom in summer; whereas the fine carnations of their cheeks is perennial as sunlight in the seventh heavens.

Las cosas mas maravillosas son siempre las inexpresables.

With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele—

And that same day, too, gazing far down from his boat's side into that same golden sea, Starbuck lowly murmured:— Loveliness unfathomable, as ever lover saw in his young bride's eyes!— Tell me not of thy teeth-tiered sharks, and thy kidnapping cannibal ways. Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.

You have but noted his fair cheek. A man-trap may be under his fine ruddy-tipped daisies.

All dies! and not alone The aspiring trees and men and grass; The poets' forms of beauty pass, And noblest deeds they are undone, Even truth itself decays, and lo, From truth's sad ashes pain and falsehood grow.

Loveliness unfathomable, as ever lover saw in his young bride's eye!--Tell me not of thy teeth-tiered sharks, and thy kidnapping cannibal ways. Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.

Quién puede trazar la línea donde termina el violeta y donde empieza el naranja en el arcoíris?

the nameless maiden in the advertisement was like a thousand other clothing models he had seen in magazines—arched brows, big eyes, angular cheeks, pouting mouth, a fetching figure, and a haughty, revolted look, as though someone had just offered her a jellyfish to hold.

Çünkü asl?nda hiçbir ÅŸey gelmiyordu ÅŸairin elinden, hiçbir kötülüÄŸün ortadan kald?r?lmas?na yard?mc? olam?yordu; yaln?zca dünyay? ihtiÅŸama boÄŸup yücelttiÄŸinde kulak veriliyordu ona, yoksa olduÄŸu haliyle anlatt???nda deÄŸil. Sadece yalan, ünün ta kendisiydi, yoksa bilgi deÄŸil

o iš negirdim? mano b?ties gelmi? v?l pakyla nuostaba: setbiuosi, kad esu žmogus, žmogus miške, per rasas ir per dien? žengiantis žmogus, jau pamiršt?s vakarykšt? liet? ir šiandienos saul?, pats tuojs išgaruosiantis rasos lašas, pats pasijunt?s gegut?s kukavimu, ir strazdo giesme, pats sklindantis nuo vieno krašto iki kito ir sugr?žtantis tik kur?ioje tyloje.

Il est des soirs de printemps dont le crépuscule outrepasse les limites que lui prescrit l'astronomie.

Now it happened that this Candaules was in love with his own wife; and not only so, but thought her the fairest woman in the whole world. This fancy had strange consequences.

It is the closest place to the stars on Earth. (Kalkan)

Fashion is a cruel mistress.